Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013

2000 - 2002

Whenever we have to face death, there is fear.
We often find ourselves speechless, and we very often don't know how to express our feelings.

When it comes to the last sign we want to install for the ones we love, or for our own grave, we sometimes feel lost inbetween what is feasible and our desire to manifest the love we feel for the person that left, the symbol we sense is the essence of this beloved one, or the statement we want to convey.

This is the gravesign I installed on the cemetery of Bausendorf, Germany, which I made for my sister who died 23rd of March 1970. She was a little girl of five years, playing on the street when a truck run over her. She died three hours later in the hospital.

The gravesign, made of steel and gold leaf, shows the pattern of her favorite dress... I felt it was the right figure as resource for the small monument I was able to manifest for my big sister, and I was lucky enough to do it exactly on the 30st day of her death.